Guild Wars 2

My elementalist. Uses Winged Mantle, Sorcerer’s Coat, Embroidered pants and sandals. No head and gloves used

When they announced the change to ranks in Spvp to make dragon rank easier to obtain, I was kinda hoping for WvW achievements to get the same treatment

Sounds like you need to run more dungeons, it’s easy to get a lot of gold then

Can’t remember where but I read that they weren’t working on it atm

You act like the other professions their new traits are so much more useful than the thief ones. I’d say you play something else than thief and then compare them

Dusty Moon.4382:

Melfice.5091:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Melfice.5091:

GW2 doesn’t have an open world, every zone is instanced on it’s own and has a 150 player cap

It is an open world. GW1 was instanced, GW2 is zoned. Please get that straight.

If it was a truely open world I wouldn’t have to run through portals to get to a new zone. GW1 was instances, and so is GW2, just with bigger instances

No – With GW1 you could not port into an area, you had to run through the gate. With GW2, since it is not instanced, you can portal in (pick a TP you have found click and go). They cut up the world to make it easier to run on the servers and your PC. Just think how it would chug if it was one open world?

Other MMO’s can do a real open world just fine, I really don’t see why GW2 should have a 150 player cap per map

Dusty Moon.4382:

Melfice.5091:

GW2 doesn’t have an open world, every zone is instanced on it’s own and has a 150 player cap

It is an open world. GW1 was instanced, GW2 is zoned. Please get that straight.

If it was a truely open world I wouldn’t have to run through portals to get to a new zone. GW1 was instances, and so is GW2, just with bigger instances

GW2 doesn’t have an open world, every zone is instanced on it’s own and has a 150 player cap

Ofcourse there wont be a patch on the 8th

I swear to god if it would be Laurel + Badges again (which means Laurels is the only thing you basicly need for it) I’m going to punch a basket of puppies

Converting 300 gold to gems to buy black lion keys hoping for something useful

I don’t think they’re ever going to do this

Star Ace.5207:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

viralthefrog.6130:

This feature update is actually why I started playing GW2 again. Well, and I finally remembered my password, but that’s a whole other story. :P
As for content, I’m sure there will be more content soon.
Also, ZudetGambeous, ESO is terrible. It may have plenty of new content, but it’s a less-than-subpar experience.
WildStar and ESO are both P2P. Believe it or not, you can play both games if you want, without breaking the bank!
I play EVE and GW2, myself. I know, unimaginable is it not?

Edit: Can’t believe Isn’t…. It is censored on this forum.

You may think that, but the plummeting GW2 population tells a different story.

Are you trolling, or do you know how the population is plummeting in someway all the other players don’t? Anecdotal evidence won’t cut it. So yes, you ARE trolling.

Don’t waste your time slinging mud at a game you don’t like (perhaps anymore), just enjoy yourself elsewhere. Life’s too short (unless you are on a “play the game I am playing now!” crusade, but that’s not allowed in the forums as far as I know; General GW2 discussion.)

Population plummeting might not be the right wording for it. I don’t think people are quiting GW2, but I do think they are just stacking on 1 server, like Blackgate and Desolation

Dean Calaway.9718:

Azure Prower.8701:

So in other words. It’s put in place to fix the low population problem.

You know. Kind of like how they do with server merges.

Where do you see low population problems? Specific servers at specific times? How come everyone complains about overflows so much if the population is that low? How come I never landed on my main server during the LA event regardless of the day time I was playing?

Where exactly are you getting that idea?

Well, you are on Desolation, the biggest server on EU so ofcourse you are not going to see the problem

Vitus Dance.4509:

Hannelore.8153:

Every other game has this…

Which is enough of a reason in itself not to have it in GW2.
If i wanted a cookie-cutter MMO, i’d play one…there’s plenty out there to choose from.

Please tell me you are trolling

I’d say wait for the patch before making conclusions

Just keep the 25 cap on players and remove the cap on pve mobs. There, I fixed conditions now we just need to hope for Anet to get their heads of their kitten

https://www.youtube.com/user/t3llularman

This is Brazil his youtube channel, and you can pretty much use it for all your PvE builds.

https://www.youtube.com/user/WoodenPotatoes/videos

This is WoodenPotatoes his channel, he doesn’t only upload GW2 stuff, so you might have to search a bit. He does post recaps of updates that happened over the past year.

Anyway, nice you finally saw the light and welcome to gw2, or should I say welcome back?

Fortus.6175:

Yo Lord, imma let you finish, but Dontain has one of the funniest crafting legendary videos of all times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4e8vSZ4jZc

That was indeed pretty hilarious, especially the WvW part

I’m pretty sure the gold income from champion bags is a lot higher than the sink from repairing/retraiting, otherwise they wouldn’t have done this change

Oh wow thats terrible communication to only state that on a German intervieuw

Greatsword look to be big to be used as 2-handers already, and you want to dualwield them?

Everyone is buying them because they’re a lot more attractive as account bound now. If you want one right now, but it don’t hesitate. If you have some patience, wait for the precursor hunt (but don’t expect free precursors from that)

The ele build has Antitoxin Spray slotted as the heal skill. I know it’s just a small error (icon looks really similar to Arcane Brilliance) so I thought I just point it out

What restrictions where removed exactly? I’m a bit confused the traits where handeled in a previous blog post, and repairing wasn’t really a restriction

You know a game is doing bad when even the last login change sounds exiting. After 1.5 years…

Berserker gear will still be the best set in PvE post patch

I guess she most likely wanted to be there, but was told that it was too dangerous

It proves that Purging Flames would tag or not. If you’re zerg farming and you’re not in a full party you’re doing it wrong anyway, so doing enough damage to tag shouldn’t be a problem

Maybe you got loot because you were the only person to damage the mob. Try it with someone else while you’re not in a party. You only use Purging Flames while the other person kills the mob like normal

It’s still blowing my mind how fast some people can solo it, when I needed like 10 minutes with my guild group to kill him at release

Be more compassionate? I’m pretty sure it was easier and faster to kill those guys, as it was 12v4, but instead of trying he came to the forums calling them out (which is against the rules iirc). That deserves no compasion at all, it’s like someone failing a math test, blaming the teacher for asking hard questions while they didn’t prepare for the exam, and then they go to the principal to complain about said teacher

No, I want you to stop crying about pvp in a pvp area. You knew that before you entered that area that it was a pvp one, and that you should prepare yourself to fight other players. You however expected a walk in a field of flowers, holding hands with every enemy you see till the end. Then some players knocked you on the head with reality and you came to the forums calling them trolls.

@Pip: if the reward is trash and not worth doing the puzzle for, then why is it worth it to come cry about it on the forums? (the achievement is part of the reward btw)

So some guys of a server blocked some other guys from another server from a chest with free siege that they could use to attack their stuff, and you call them trolls? Maybe they didn’t want to kill you (save you the repair bill) but also didn’t want you to reach the chest, then fearing, knockbacking etc is the only thing they can do

Is there any news on these? Or do you think they maybe gave up on it?

Paulytnz.7619:

Nick.6972:

Paulytnz.7619:

Honestly people how many sets can you wear at any given time anyway!? I don’t know which game, or who/where it was ever said that MMO’s HAVE to periodically bring in new wep/armour skins. Even having 7 alts and my main I can’t see myself using ALL of what was made available at the start of the game. Mind you I understand how most of what there are does not look so great, but still…

All the new armor sets are only available in the gem store, that’s the problem.

I don’t see it as a problem. They need desirable things in the gem shop to entice people to spend money and these are obviously one of the better ideas for that end.

PS, not ALL new armour sets are gem store only – ascended is an example that comes to mind.

Ascended is the only one that comes to mind

I already thought the CoE light armor set was bad with that much cleavage, but this is just… even prostitutes would think of this armor as too revealing

Allright, maybe a single player won’t fail the event, but have too many casual pugs (bowbears etc) on the map and even Deso won’t be able to do it. And you saying that it’s made for organized alliances shows even more that it should be instanced

I guess you are either from BG, Deso or TxS. With communities as big as these ones the Wurms (and Tequatl) are actually fun to do, and hard but not impossible. Now try to immagine yourself on literally every other server, where there aren’t even close to enough people doing the Wurms.

Oh and lets not ignore all the faults the fight has, like open world content where a single person can fail it is an automatic fail in design in my book, that kitten should be instanced

Phoenixlin.8624:

Given the discussions in forums, you need to learn how to deal with difficulties.

That makes no sense at all

If soulbinding would be removed now, the entire market would crash I think. there would be over a hundred of legendaries on the TP, and other expensive weapons like infinite light etc

Anet doesn’t like anything negative about their precious living story, so they delete all threads that have any form of negativity so only threads with positive kitten about living story remains, making it seem like everyone likes the living story

Ed, edd and eddy

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It’s one of those human things to do something with the path of least resistance and danger, especially when there is a reward at the end. I could make enemies never drop their aggro on players and force them to fight every single mob, but I don’t see that as a viable solution right now.
I think the better solution is to look at why people are skipping things, and approach from a different angle. Trash mobs have too much HP, and can’t be counted on for lucrative drops from a Risk/Time vs Reward, so people interested in making money (most groups) aren’t incentivized to do it, whereas the end chest/boss are more guaranteed and accountable returns on time and risk. I also think there is something to be said about interesting trash mob mechanics making them more enjoyable of a fight.
I can’t make the rewards from trash mobs so lucrative though that people just farm the first couple trash mobs/boss in a dungeon and then rinse/repeat. We encountered this when people just farmed the first boss in an instance and then restarted it (earlier around launch time), and we had to adjust the content as a result. It’s a fine line you have to walk to encourage players to get to the end, but make the process of getting there rewarding enough as well.

I don’t imagine this next update will resolve all the skipping behavior. The path of least resistance is engrained in people, and even if I do everything I could to incentivize people, there will still be those who skip stuff. I have been fixing exploits that will require players to complete more of the events in dungeons, but I am sure people will still skip what they can to get to their end goal.

For now I would encourage those not looking to skip to find some folks who don’t like skipping and make a guild with them… or maybe look for guilds that are dedicated to not skipping, and tag along with them. I’m in a couple of them (anonymously), and it really is an effective solution to playing the game the way you want to play it: Find other people with similar interests and band together with them.

Is there such a thing as a justified necro?

While the cost for gems is getting really high, it’s still a better option than only have real money as a currency in the store so I don’t mind it

No rules on repping will make your guild nothing more than a LFG guild (which most of the time just fail)

Most likely bought with glory, some people have a really large amount of it

Wait what, you really think wvw and spvp get more attention than pve?

Because the top 3 position is pretty much set in stone, more focus on good fights this week and less about PPT (and less crying from both Desolation and Gandara)